Life Lessons Quote by Cheryl Strayed — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”

“The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.”

“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties or whenever the motherfuck it was and he was trying to get apes to draw these pictures, to make”

“He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”

“Take steps that can help you stop yourself from being mediocre. Stand out and shine bright in the corridors of success.”

“To shape the world for the better, first shape yourself for the better! And to shape yourself for the better, first question the forces that shaped you before – your family, education, society, culture!”

“For heaven's sake," panted Archimedes, bobbing in the dark air beside him, "stop flying like a woodpecker. Anybody would take you for a Little Owl, if the creatures had been imported. What you are doing is to give yourself flying speed with one flick of your wings. You then rise on that flick until you have lost flying speed and begin to stall. Then you give another just as you are beginning to drop out of the air, and do a switch-back. It is confusing to keep up with you.”

“Do not lose your voice while crying over a closed door. Use your voice to open better doors.”

“Success can be a storm that drowns the whispers of your soul. Listen closely, or you'll be carried away by the winds of others' expectations.”